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Best Riptide Poems

Below are the all-time best Riptide poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of riptide poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Pink Champagne and Satin Opera Gloves
As wild as unbridled seas,
soft as mist, a spindrift tease. 
Night stars swoon and fall from skies; 
constellations fill her eyes. 
Every leaf stirs in...

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Categories: riptide, beauty, celebration, desire, joy,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Music in Me
Childhood can 
be a connotation 
of cacophonous tunes,
where the sweetest sins 
hide pain 
    behind a smile.
We all have 
 a story...

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Categories: riptide, child, children, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life is a Song
Written: January 2nd, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest

Rumi verse" Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptide, analogy, confidence, life, music,
Form: Free verse
Purpose
Everyone's purpose is as light as a floating feather. 
Unfortunately, the focus on it is like stirring mud
in weather that currently coats fog on past...

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© Mindy Clay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptide, beauty, pride, self, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Out of the Water
Hooves of aquatic thunder these white steeds
Of wonder, slamming against the coral reef
As hail storms rage, set us free their voices
Softly speak through the seashells...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptide, adventure, america, beauty, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Usher Me By
Usher me by, the power of the tidal wave, for beneath
You’ve crushed my heart and soul, washed away is resistance.
I’m a vanquished current, swept within...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptide, devotion, emotions, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Satisfaction
“I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no girl reaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try“

   ...

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Categories: riptide, marriage, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zombie Shark
On 11-28-2015, Hurricane Ben, slammed off the shores of Sydney Australia,
Its tremendous waves beaching the second largest shark in the world today,
Colossus, killing him on...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptide, adventure, fantasy, halloween, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched...

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Categories: riptide, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
My Special Place
A stretch of sheer light blue aqua lined with foam like whipped cream on a milk shake. Moves in an out as we rotate. At...

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Categories: riptide, happy, life,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Coming Home
I’ve been adrift on the sea, a lost soul of ideal inspiration
Tossed asunder amongst realities harsh waves of the incomplete,
A disembarked being, caught at the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptide, adventure, boat, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Other Side of Tomorrow
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOMORROW.

Having beat down insomnia with sleeping pills 
and feeling that I am floating freely, 
enclosed within a foam filled 
crest...

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Categories: riptide, anxiety, crazy, image, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's the Pumkin Beer Talking
The soft self-praise of your own heart,
Is this not our lost secret?
Bring forth that feathering truth
Like fields of canary bells
You ring, you're ringing,
Ringing from the...

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Categories: riptide, happiness, writing, writing,
Form: Free verse
River
There’s a harsh river that’s flowing outside,
I can hear it from inside the house;
While I’m still slumbering after my rouse –
It is tugging the sand...

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Categories: riptide, river,
Form: Sonnet
To Grinder Monkey Smiles
To All Mothers Everywhere
To all mothers
everywhere
Why do you part your legs
toward
the 21st Centaury
Didn’t you know
That the future is our final station
Where the monkey sits and...

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Categories: riptide, age, birth, death, future,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs